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The piano concerto is one of classical music’s most thrilling and expressive forms – a fusion of lyrical beauty, dazzling virtuosity, and dramatic dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Across ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Taking a cue from Mozart, András Schiff appeared with the New York Philharmonic as both piano soloist and conductor. By Joshua Barone See more of our ...

JoAnn Falletta is known for amplifying American composers, and Adolphus Hailstork’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a work she holds in the highest regard—calling it “...one of the greatest American piano ...

Malcolm Bilson’s highly regarded period-instrument recordings of Mozart piano concertos with John Eliot Gardiner in the 1980s and 1990s didn’t include the earliest concertos. Bilson recorded them ...

Brahms's piano concertos are two of the greatest pillars of the Romantic repertoire. The first, written in 1858 when the composer was still a young man, is like a symphony where piano and orchestra ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...